The early 1990s saw a rash of artists release not double albums, but two separate albums on the same day. Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Guns N’ Roses tried this. The loose idea was that each album would showcase a different side of the artist and the consumer could choose which…
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See also: GWAR, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Kendrick Lamar, and More Just Announced Shows It’s time to tear into your closet and dust off those old gas station shirts. ’80s ska/punk band Fishbone is hitting Club Red on Thursday, September 27. After last year’s album release Crazy Glue, a documentary…
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Every Monday morning Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
Photo by Erik Hess BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday’s entertainment at Chicago’s Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just…
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Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The network formerly known as Music Television celebrated its 31st birthday on Wednesday, August 1. Coincidentally, teen heartthrob Justin Bieber unveiled a new music video on the same day. The…
Tim Tagtmeyer Tagtmeyer is a member of the sketch comedy group Bully Mammoth, which has a show at Tempe Center for the Arts Saturday, August 18. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now?…
Yesterday, Fat Wreck Chords released the very sad news that Tony Sly, singer and guitarist of ’90s punk band No Use for a Name passed away on July 31. The cause of death has not been released. Sly was 41…
Round and round the orange Camaro went, slowly disappearing in a cloud of acrid smoke. If that high school parking lot hadn’t been repaved the next year, the circular tire marks left by the muscle car might still shine in the greasy glory that marked the the final day of…
Everyone loves an underdog, but even more, they love to be the underdog, even if the evidence suggests otherwise. The Tea Party paints itself as a grass-roots middle-class movement, but it consists mostly of white middle-class suburbanites, the biggest voting bloc. This year’s Miami Heat championship team was granted a…
Exactly what you’re going to hear and see on Kanye West’s upcoming Cruel Summer compilation and short film is a guarded secret. Originally rumored to drop on August 7, the release now is scheduled for September 4 via G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, but none of that is to say that…
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Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion was one of 2009’s best, and ‘Collective fans are understandably antsy about its followup three years later. Well, the waits is over: Animal Collective has a new album, Centipede Hz due in September. Yesterday, the band shared “Today’s Supernatural” on the recently launched Animal Collective…
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